Friday, January 1, 2010

The Decade of Nothing

Here's to a decade that now is part of the void that its type symbolized: the Nothings before the Somethings. No one knows what to call it. Some call it the "Naughties", others "The Big Zero" or the "Double-Os". Regardless, the nature of a name with this number-logic had a psychological effect on me. The mortality of seeing a number, a decade, counting down (or up, depending how you look at it) makes a person want to seize it before the next number. Something about '00s creates a different flow.

I don't know what to make of the decade; there were a lot of ups and downs, bests and worsts of. But maybe that's the point. Don't have an absolute claim to make in such an expanse of time, but make it bold for the next decade because you already know how it is not to. The Nothings before the Somethings, turn to the Nothing that Is.

And with that I give you a nice The Decade that Passed present. It's a free-association drawing I did in '01. I thought it fitting for I drew it in the onset of the decade (it starts with the first year, not '00, you know), a worldly, significant, sad, and impressionable year, and because as a free-association drawing, making it as you go along without consciously knowing what you are drawing, with no intentions, making it seems a lot like life itself. And also, it's a drawing of a nascent of a man waking out of his cocoon. Yes, very fitting.

Happy Decade that Passed and a Happy New Decade!(hey, you only get to say 'Happy New Decade' once every ten years; make it count!)

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Books I'm In

Psychosis! #1:Co-created, character designed, lettered, penciled, pre-pressed and digitally manipulated the 8-pager Desperate Skin. The book has four variant covers. I did two of the four variant logos. Worked with writer Alan Abbadessa and inker Peter Palmiotti. Psychosis! #1 is currently in 20 comic stores in six U.S. states and selling like hot cakes! So get your grubby hands on them.

C.A.G. Anthology #4:
This anthology features Tile Trinity, the 8-page comicbook short debut! Penciled, lettered, character designed and did the pre- and post-press for the it. Worked with writer Alan Abbadessa. Sorry guys, CAG Anthology #4 is SOLD OUT! Please click the link or pic for more info.

The Mind's Overflow:A 69-page out-of-print anthology I published/art directed. I also drew a few of the illustrations, designed (pretty much the overall book and logo), and penciled/inked/lettered/image manipulated a 14-page comic of the same name. Worked with Alan Abbadessa, E-I-C. This was our first venture into comics publishing.